Peter Nyssen Ltd

Peter Nyssen Ltd Specialist flower bulbs & plants for your garden. Always top quality & unbeatable prices. Delivery throughout the UK and Europe.

We're a small and energetic family business dating back to 1958 and come from a long line flower of bulb and perennial workers originating in the Dutch flower bulb area. We supply high quality bulbs, tubers and perennial plants for honest prices, as we believe that everyone should have access to gardening. It’s why Peter Nyssen is the go-to online garden retailer for flower bulbs and hardy perennials for serious gardeners throughout the UK and Europe.

19/05/2026

🙋 Hands up if you’ve already started thinking about next spring’s flowers?

(Lots of you, apparently, based on the amount of orders already - thank you! 🙏🙏)

It’s never too early to start your plans. We have a LOT of fantastic flower bulbs to plant this autumn, so it can take a while to choose! Create or log in to your Peter Nyssen account and add favourites to a wishlist or pre-order now to make sure you get the varieties that you really want.

Pre-orders are now open and we start deliveries around late August/early September.

17/05/2026

Relax! Ants zig-zagging all over emerging peony blooms are nothing to worry about. The peonies are providing a free buffet via nectar droplets, in exchange for some “protection” from other pests from the ants - nature’s little security guards.

12/05/2026

🛒Hurry, hurry for half prices on our spring planting selection. We’ll be closing that soon (but you can pre-order your bulbs to plant in the autumn).

In the meantime, dahlia tubers, gladioli, summer bulbs & more are 50% off - limited time so shop today! 🌸

10/05/2026

What to do with tulips after flowering: reflower, lift & store, or replace? This is the info you need, so save this one🌷⬇️

Any time I talk tulips, the same question is: will they come back next year? I still don’t have a neat answer. I’d like to say “no”… but it can happen and commercial growers have the right conditions & expertise for success.

This video covers 3 routes 👇� ✅ Route 1: improve chances of reflowering� ✅ Route 2: treat them as annuals
✅ Route 3: leave them in the ground & see what happens

Most garden tulips are cultivated types, bred for big, showy flowers - a long way from their wild ancestors. After producing an oversized bloom, it’s asking a lot of the bulb to also rebuild itself fully. It may divide into bulblets; if conditions are good, it may also form a stronger “mother” bulb that’s more likely to flower again.
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1) If you want to encourage reflowering next year, think:
Soil & drainage 💧�Tulips like a warm, dry summer rest. Wet summer soil is their enemy (esp in heavy/clay soil). Consider raising beds by a few inches to improve drainage.

Planting depth 📏�Planting deeper (~ 20cm / 8in) can stabilise temperature & may reduce splitting into lots of tiny, non-flowering bulblets.

Deadheading ✂️�Remove seed heads promptly after flowering, ideally just before petals drop: you want energy going back into the bulb for next year, not into seed.

Feeding 🍅�Use a high-potash feed (e.g.tomato feed) as foliage dies back, not while in flower.

Lifting & storing 📦�Lift once leaves turn yellow (roughly 6 weeks after flowering). Clean off soil, discard damaged or diseased bulbs, & store somewhere cool, dry & airy.

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2) The “guaranteed display” option: treat as annuals
If you’d rather not gamble, many gardeners treat cultivated tulips as annuals:�🌷 lift after flowering + replant fresh bulbs in autumn for the best show.�You can add lifted bulbs to compost UNLESS they are diseased…bin those to avoid contamination
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3) If you leave them in the ground…
Expect things to be more variable: cultivated tulips often get smaller over time, while species tulips are genera

07/05/2026

That satisfying and slightly heartbreaking moment when Dutch tulip farmers “top” their fields. 😯

“Do they really have to?” you might ask.

Well, once the tulips have flowered, it signals that the bulb is mature enough for the head to come off before seeds can set, so every last bit of the plant’s energy goes back into the bulb. It’s a bit like deadheading in your own garden, just on a rather different scale.

Those bulbs will be carefully harvested, graded and will end up in gardens around the world - possibly including yours!

We’ll be explaining more from Stephen’s garden in our next video.

02/05/2026

Our incredible value “Mystery Box” is back! 🎉 (but be quick!)

Grab an exclusive Mixed Box of summer-flowering bulbs at an unmissable price. Inside you’ll find a carefully chosen seasonal mix, including dahlias, begonias and gladioli, plus a few extra surprises.

We’ll pack each box with bulbs to plant this summer worth at least £100. You won’t know the exact varieties until it arrives, but you will know this: more flowers for less, and a garden (or balcony) full of colour.

30/04/2026

Pinching out is a quick removal of the central stem of the dahlia. It encourages side shoots, so you get a stronger, bushier dahlia with more blooms. Read below for when and how to do it ⬇️

⏰ Wait for the right stage:�Pinch when the plant is growing strongly and is about 30cm (8-12in) tall, with around 4 pairs of true leaves.

🌿 Find the main growing tip:�Look at the very top of the plant. You’ll see a central upright stem with a soft, fresh cluster of new leaves right at the top: that’s the growing point.

✄ Identify the leaf pair to cut above�Use your fingernail or some snips to remove the growing point just above a pair of leaves (we usually make sure there are 3-4 leaf pairs below the tip). You’re usually taking off only 1-3cm; a tiny amount.

What happens next (what to look for):�Within a week or two you’ll see two new shoots forming from the leaf joints just below your cut. Those become extra flowering stems.

Now your dahlias are growing well, you can start to feed them every couple of weeks with a high-potash feed (e.g. tomato feed). Avoid feeding with high nitrogen products as it will encourage foliage growth at the expense of flowers. Questions? Let us know in the comments. ⬇️

If you want spring to last longer, add Camassia to your bulb plan.Just as the later narcissus and tulips start to wind d...
28/04/2026

If you want spring to last longer, add Camassia to your bulb plan.

Just as the later narcissus and tulips start to wind down, Camassia is brilliant at stitching together the gap between late spring and early summer. Beautiful star-shaped flowers on tall stems mix well with perennials, and they’re excellent for naturalising in meadows or garden borders. A superb pollinator plant too! 🐝 🦋

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